Lynn Barber
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I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do. I learned to suspect that everyone is capable of living a lie. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.
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Be thankful for all the difficult people in your life, and learn from them. They have shown you exactly who you do not want to be.
Unknown (via thoughtkick)
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…fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.
Neil Gaiman (via writingdotcoffee)
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Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.
John Green (via quotemadness)
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I’ve a blogspot.com address. It’s been so long that I don’t remember my username so I searched through my inbox to find that sign up email. So I went in, and saw that my last blog entry was 15 years ago. Wow. How time just flew like that.
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Every human being has paid the earth to grow up. Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up. Not really. They grow older. But to grow up costs the earth, the earth. It means you take responsibility for the time you take up, for the space you occupy. It’s serious business. And you find out what it costs us to love and to lose, to dare and to fail. And maybe even more, to succeed. What it costs, in truth.
Maya Angelou (1928-2014) American poet, memoirist, activist (via macrolit)
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Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.
Mitch Albom (via quotemadness)
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Sometimes you are so emotionally drained that even sleep doesn’t do anything anymore. You wake up still tired. And it just doesn’t go away.
The Poetic Boy (via the-poetic-boy)
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The worst thing about being angry is not having the strength to be angry. So instead of being able to channel, vent or even act out your anger, you just sit there, angry and disheartened and exhausted.
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There is a level of frustration that pushes you to make a change, there is another level of frustration that makes you feel like nothing will change. The key is to act on the initial frustration and overcome it before it builds up and over comes you.
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I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
Sylvia Plath (via macrolit)